Really enjoyed this. I thought I knew a lot about Cartier-Bresson, my favorite photographer, but I learned even more by your video. Thanks!

@theschoolofphotography

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊

This man is a genius you don’t have to move you could wait till life appears

@theschoolofphotography

2 жыл бұрын

Great quote

always loved Cartier Bresson, this video puts a lot of his thinking about the moment. gives a good understanding regards photography without all the bells and whistles of equipment.Great.

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you😊

Absolutely love how informative and well put this video is! Didn't want the video to end! The works of Henri Cartier Bresson is just breathtaking and mind-blowing! Totally in love 😍 And thank you so much for the fact sheet!

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome 👍

The way you narrate the story is so enjoyable. thank you. big help for my research about Cartier-bresson.

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

@DWilz

3 жыл бұрын

He's a beautiful storyteller, I had to reload it!!

Every time I see the work of HCB it warms my heart. It makes me want to take my camera and go out. He will always be that genius that shaped the world silently

Thanks a ton for doing this video. Really love how you've taken us on this short journey through Bresson's life and work. Just what I was looking for to get me started. Gawd Bless Yer.

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Vaibhav, gawd bless yer 😊

Awesome stuff! Thanks for your time and effort. Enjoyed it.

You made me understand for the first time what exactly is the decisive moment.

The way you become a good photographer is you dont just watch these videos and do exactly astold or what they do, you experiment, you try it yourself, you mess around with the lightings and colors and other settings and you take the time, boom you get good stuff. Also dont always do like the wild nature landscapes, snow caps, glaciers, deseert, african jungle animals stuff like most people do, its gods gift of nature, not your talent if you get a spectacular image of the dust in desert or creatures, just go try yourself some pretty images of unique views in urban life, or even your home, the view out the window, the balcony, standing on top of roof, a street, neon signs, a river, etc

Thank you for the video. Just please note that the picture shown at 17.14 was not made in Paris. It was made in Italy, Abruzzo region.

Great video well done, he was certainly a great photographer and one we should all take to our hearts.

@theschoolofphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely :)

great to watch what ;lucid language you did put in it entered through my head and heart , thanks alot,await more to come

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it 👍

This is the best review I heard on Cartier Bresson the reason I immersed myself into photojournalism. Thank you very much for the video. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for this great overview of my fav: HCB!

Thank you so much! It's a great video!

I have just subscribed to your site, this video about Bresson is wonderful and your narrative is respectful and informative. Bresson was a true master and sadly we will never see his like again.

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad to have you on board 👍

Just discovered this having searched for HCB. This came up top of the list. Great video and lovely details on his works. Subbed and liked!

Very nice to learn about this legend!

Thank you! This tutorial is quite inspiring, I have photographed for 20+ years and known of HC-Bresson, but this is refreshing to say the least. Thanks

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Kevin 👍

A big thank you for this video. A beautiful and very insightful introduction to the work of the genius HCB

@theschoolofphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it 😊

H.C-B was my greatest inspiration, I've a small, white Aperture book on him. Then over a decade later I acquired a much bigger Thames & Hudson publication and finally his book entitled 'the man, the image, the world' My in-depth research on him revealed his camera to be a 1953 Leica rangefinder, vision through the viewfinder rather than an SLR, through the lens. With a cloth film plane shutter, rather than your noisy retractable mirror. Then I waited a month of our Weekly Trading Post, till that model 1953 rangefinder Leica turned up, it was worth the $850-. Being quiet was advantageous with portraits, as it was the most discrete camera. Superior to my four prior Nikons, starting with a pre loved Nikkormat Ftn I'd acquired in '69. Lastly prior to that quintessential Leica, a Nikon FE2 ! Toeknee Chestnut

@theschoolofphotography

7 жыл бұрын

+Tony Wilmers he is a genius with a camera :) thanks

Thank you for your inspiring video, very informative and you are a good storyteller with great analysis of the photos

Wonderful class

Excellent overview of the artist. Thank you for sharing!

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, glad you liked it :)

Still a great video as time goes on (a timeless subject as it is), thanks for sharing your enthusiasm!

I’ve just acquired 2 posters of Cartier Bresson. I found your video very informative and interesting. Thank you very much!

@theschoolofphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comments, glad you found it helped 😊

You are a great storyteller - really engaging and a great way to start my research thank you

@theschoolofphotography

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

loved this!!

@theschoolofphotography

7 жыл бұрын

+Jose Monserrate thanks Jose appreciate the comments. If you want to support us here at TSOP I would really appreciate a share of this video with your friends :) thanks

Very interesting, educative and informative. Thank you! Really enjoyed the review )

@theschoolofphotography

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Nataliya, glad you liked it 👍

We do obsess over the type of camera,but to be there,and ready is of overriding importance.

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Certainly is Malcolm, thanks 👍

Thank you for this great video! I wouldn't know why, but I smiled right from the start till the end while watching this...

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I learned to photograph by looking at his books... over and over. He really was the greatest ever.

@theschoolofphotography

Жыл бұрын

👍👌

Superb thanks 🙏

i'm just started to learn ata photography school, and this's really helped me on a work i had to do on this briliant guy! Thanks! :)

@theschoolofphotography

6 жыл бұрын

+zohar moyal thanks Zohar, appreciate the feedback 😊

Ty for this

Excellent lesson, great execution!

@theschoolofphotography

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Great Video on my favorite photographer!

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it 👍

That was a great video!! Thank yoouuu 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

@theschoolofphotography

9 ай бұрын

You're so welcome! 🙏

Great video, very helpful with my Master degree. Thanks

@theschoolofphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks and good luck with the degree 👍

thank you for this video.. amazing video

@theschoolofphotography

6 жыл бұрын

+Andrei Amodia thanks, glad you liked it 😊

Very nice video my friend, lovely pictures and info about a great human being. Thank you .

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thankyou. Immensly informative

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Trudie :)

As a republican Englishman I have to say that’s one of the best commentaries on HCB I heard. My favourite image is the little boy with the two bottles and the look of pride on his face, I've never seen an image that tells the story that one does. It may be because I’m of a generation where I could identify with the boy. I noticed on one of the images there was the Magnum logo and the image was 11 years older than the agency is. There’s no doubt about Capa's skills, but was the subject of his most famous image falling? Waving his comrades on? Or shot just at that moment. Although Capa did die through walking on a land mine in Vietnam, it wasn’t the Vietnam war we all know but the French Vietnam war. A massive sweeping statement, but I think you have to appreciate how good HCB was to full appreciate and understand Photography. It was when HCB was at Cambridge in the late 1920s that he first realised what great subjects the English make mainly because of their eccentricities. He always used Ilford HP5 (not plus) which the modern version the HP5 plus is my favourite film, I also use it in a rangefinder so does that make me as good as HCB?

@theschoolofphotography

6 жыл бұрын

+Mark Harris thanks for the comments :)

@markharris5771

6 жыл бұрын

The School of Photography One quick question, the camera on your t shirt has the shape of a FED5 but the layout of one of the obscure Leicas like the M246 (I only remember it because it’s easy), which is it? Please don’t disappoint me and say it’s a M9.

You did a great job.

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

What a wonderful video. Gawd bless yer 📸🙂

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris 👍

So enlightening ! Thanks ! Please do more such videos :)

@theschoolofphotography

11 ай бұрын

More to come! 😊

Very informative! Thank you 🙏🏾

@theschoolofphotography

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

13:50 is Hyeres Gare St Lazare is the one with the man jumping over puddles

Thank you!

@theschoolofphotography

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! 😊

Thanks. I really enjoyed this video.

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much!

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

👍

Vielen Dank-toll !

That's awesome .. substantial, educational and enjoyable too!! . please keep doing such great reviews. Thank you 😊 we are waiting! Actually I hope we could know more about Margaret bourke white 👍

@theschoolofphotography

3 жыл бұрын

Noted 👍😊

Interesting video. thanks!

@theschoolofphotography

2 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

Great video, very expertly explained

@theschoolofphotography

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

His first camera was a Leica i. The camera you showed is a Leica iii, much later and more advanced than his Leica i. The Leica i did not have a coupled rangefinder and you had to guess the distance that your subject was away from you to focus the camera, you then dial that guessed distance on the lens itself. He took most of his great pictures on his Leica i before he moved onto the Leica ii iii and M3.

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers James 👍

@g-r-a-e-m-e-

5 жыл бұрын

True. I still use cameras like that, where you have to guess. Strangely enough the images are usually sharp, or sharp enough.

I loved it….. thanks

@theschoolofphotography

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

Great video!!

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

This was helpful

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊

sometimes i get emotional watching the photographs of HCB ,he was such a genius

@theschoolofphotography

7 жыл бұрын

+GertJan van der Kooij he certainly was :)

Would love to see a whole series of these! How about Margaret Bourke-White?

@theschoolofphotography

7 жыл бұрын

+Mason Chane that is a great idea, and one I'm actually working on. Keep it tuned for more soon :)

Very nice and concise story on the life and work of HCB. One comment, though, to set history straight, Robert Capa died after stepping on land mine in 1954 while covering for Life Magazine the First Indo-China War (better known as "Indo-China War" against the French) and not not during the Second Indo-China Was (better known as "Vietnam War" against the Americans).

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul

Great video :)

@theschoolofphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Phil, really glad you liked it 👍

3:19 wow

The famos jumping man over a puddle is cropped. Nothing wrong with that. Such a great person he was. Thank you for the nice narration.

The truth is if I would have taken this photo at 15.20 Alberto Giacometti, it would have been crap, slated because of the tree in the foreground (and you know it), subject in centre of the frame etc etc. But because it was taken by Bresson its genius, its not genius its an average photo, people have told you it is and you believe it, you won't question it because your worried that your piers will say

His photographs are amazing. It is sad to think that if he started shooting at present in the age of Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, he would likely receive little recognition for his work.

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Very true 👍

@BlissMD247

5 жыл бұрын

#BS

@BlissMD247

5 жыл бұрын

#BS

@BlissMD247

5 жыл бұрын

What's truly sad is your comment that says SO much about more about you than anything else. There is a distinct difference in getting work published on merit vs. social medie... #Duhhh

silver nitrate at its best

Very good video

@theschoolofphotography

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

beauty

@theschoolofphotography

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

Any updates in 2022?

🖤

As a diabetic I had to stop watching this video because the sugar overload was too much and I was afraid I would go into a coma.

nice

@theschoolofphotography

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Terence

My god, I don't care what you talk about. I'll gladly listen to your accent no matter what. It's a bonus I love photography. Great content too.

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

Very interesting. But at minute 17:00 it's not Paris, 1954 but L'Aquila, Italy, 1951 :-)

@theschoolofphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Yes I know, my mistake there! Thanks

@ChrisBoland

5 жыл бұрын

Could that be annotated on the video? I nearly added it to a list of places to look for in Paris 🙂

Hello... nice video... The picture where you see the women in black... according to a book I have was not made in Paris... It should be L'AQUILA in Italy.

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Tony, yes I know, I made a mistake in the video! Thanks

@tonyparatore888

5 жыл бұрын

@@theschoolofphotography it's alright... I make mistakes too... very nice video though!

All the french "Humanist photographers" were great to me ... Frank Horvat , Marc Riboud , Willy Ronis , Doisneau , Edouard Bouba ..........

I have a picture i took, which i wanna send. How do i send you?

@theschoolofphotography

3 жыл бұрын

Please tag #theschoolofphotography1 on Instagram 👍

Great! But the Picture With the pigeon (1954) is not from Paris, but from Scanno in Italy, I think.

@theschoolofphotography

7 жыл бұрын

+Knut-Inge Johnsen you could be right there Knut, thanks for the correction

@barbaradimaio856

6 жыл бұрын

Hi! Yes, I confirm that one was taken in Scanno in Italy. I'm Italian and I've been in that place. Also the picture with the man on the bicycle and the stairs was taken in Scanno in Italy.

@simonesquadroni5464

2 жыл бұрын

@@barbaradimaio856 The photograph with the man on the bicycle was shot in Hyères, southern France

This video is great. One thing distracted me, though - the shaky computer monitor. It is REALLY annoying and ruins the whole experience. I respectfully suggest that you either use a more steady monitor or put it out of the picture.

thank you. would you please put in Turkish subtitles? very nice but easier to watch ✌️

@theschoolofphotography

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

Cartier-Bresson had all his shapes in place (his composition) and all he had to do was to wait for life to appear. Is this photography? I think it is just art that is stunning and interesting.

35mm prime len, master can use prime len to get great photo

I too think he is a genius, I can look at his work all day. I believe he only used his Leicas with the standard 50mm lens. and looking at his work I see no reason not to believe that.

3:06 i believe its smoke from the cigaret he is holding in his right hand.

this guy sounds just like russell brand

"Balanced perfectly in the left Fird"

Pronounced phonetically Carti Bresso